This series of medals address the feeling of being balanced in the fleeting moment of time between the past and the future; The Edge of the present.

The obverses depict the cross sections of trees. The history lines marking the aging of the tree are symbolic of the past that has gone by, that cannot be reversed. The reverses depict various pieces of slate, symbolic of the clear future that lies ahead, unknown. The smooth texture that contrasts so vastly with the ridged and grained surface of the wood highlights the opposition of past and future, However I left some of the natural textures in the slate as I found them, rather than polishing the slate completely blank, because all of our futures carry marks and scars of the life we have so far lived. Around the edges of the medals, people can be found, traveling in motion, in the split second between their past and their future.

The models were made from wood sourced in the English countryside, and slate found in the Welsh hills. The final pieces are lost-wax cast in Bronze. For process pictures click here.